Infinite Worlds: Fiction-Based Timelines

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Mgellis

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni...let's do the time warp again. But maybe not with so many knives and bludgeons this time, okay? Check out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni

...for more details. And then run like hell. If you can.

Well of course in Higurashi time is not being reset. Rika is. Even if they figured that the difference between the Higurashi world consists of one exceptionally pretty town having been wiped out in a "freak gas accident", there'd be nothing to do about it, unless they then found another earlier Higurashi world and decided to intervene.

[Randyman]

From a more musical perspective, I offer http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...&postcount=235

[Mgellis]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Well of course in Higurashi time is not being reset. Rika is. Even if they figured that the difference between the Higurashi world consists of one exceptionally pretty town having been wiped out in a "freak gas accident", there'd be nothing to do about it, unless they then found another earlier Higurashi world and decided to intervene.

For Infinite Worlds, maybe the plot would be that the world is being re-set. Instead of Burton, which is on a 40-year cycle, more or less, the Higurashi timeline is on a 40-day cycle, but no one notices...except for a vague sense that something is wrong, summer sure is lasting a long time, etc. The only reason that people from Infinity notice is that they can leave the timeline and when they come back later, they see time is looping...and every time, the same disaster happens in a Japanese town, a couple of days pass, and then time resets again.

As a campaign, this wouldn't work if the characters know the story...they'll simply shoot the person responsible, tell Rika they're "friends," and watch as the timeline heals itself. But a looping timeline puzzle world campaign might work if you come up with some other mystery that needs to be solved...

Mark

[David Johnston2]

Well there were like, six other explanations offered over the course of the series, from the natives of the village being actual hybrid part-demons, to a drug syndicate operating out of the village.

[Ravenspath]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I did this sort of thing in my campaign Gods and Monsters, but set in 1925. I had, for example, a very aged Sherlock Holmes invite one of the PCs, whom he knew from their studying bartitsu together, to visit with him while his students competed in London's first jiu-jitsu tournament; one of his students turned out to be a young woman who was trying to get her boyfriend Bertie to sign up for lessons ("It would be so good for you, Bertie!"), and so Bertie and his friend Lord Peter showed up at the tournament, accompanied by their valets Jeeves and Bunter. The players loved it, though they never did get all the jokes.

Bill Stoddard

That world could be the one that would actually get my wife to game. We love Jeeves & Wooster as well as Lord Peter. Campion is just a bit later I believe otherwise would make a good addition as well!

[David Johnston2]

Campion was born in 1900, and his first story takes place in 1929.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Voltron64

Here's a fun little idea I just thought of, which fictional characters could you see being recruited by ISWAT?

Fingolfin. Be afraid.

MacGuyver.

Michael Westen.

[Flyndaran]

Raistlin, be very VERY afraid.

[Rocket Man]

Sir Percy Blakeney, without a doubt.

[Hans Rancke-Madsen]

What are ISWAT's recruitment criteria?

I was in a discussion about later Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and I remember suggesting Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin as field commanders and the Duke of Denver (i.e. Peter Whimsey) as M. (That would have been for the 1970s).


Hans